Producing Optical Illusions

A patent application by Linnett for the Kineograph, a forerunner of the flipbook.

1477

Effeuilloir mécanique pour cinématographe de poche

Painted tin

France

c. 1895

2 1/2" X 2 1/4" X 2 1/2"

Titled on the front Scenes Animēes and on the side Petit Biograph Parisien this little machine was produced by Léon Beaulieu. It comes with twelve flip books and can be inserted and viewed as one flicks the images through the edge on the front.

0516

Movie Scope

Paper

America

1916

8 1/2"x 2"

Five strips for the Movie Scope. The strips include. The Parade(6), Jungle Sports(1,2,4), and The Old Woman(8).

0515

Newspaper Movie Machine

Lithographed tin

America

1919

5" x 2" x 5"

A toy mutoscope. Each week you would cut newspaper strips(42 individual pieces) and insert in the machine to create a moving image which the machine was cranked and the images were looked at sequentially. Manufactured by the World Syndicate Co.